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# From Friends Of Pitcairn comes a pointer to Norfolk Island correspondence between the Governer General of Austrlia and the Bishop of New Zealand in 1857. The letters discuss the move of the Pitcairners to the island. It has a lot of interesting information.

"While thinking over the subject of our conversation on Friday last, I have been led to the belief, that I did not make my views with relation to the Pitcairn Islanders so clear as I might have done. I have thought it better therefore to state them in writing, in order that you might not be led stray with regard to them by a misconception of expressions used by me in conversation. The wishes of her Majesty's Government, as communicated to me, not only in Dispatches from the Secretary of State, but also by a verbal message from Mr. Labouchere, are,-- "that these Islanders should be left as much as possible to themselves, that no interference should take place with the rules under which they have hitherto been living; that in point of fact, they should be enabled to carry out at Norfolk Island, the same primitive or patriarchal system which have produced such good effects upon their moral conduct at Pitcairn's Island."

# Angels and Eagles. Angels and Eagles is a weblog by Mary Christian-Bailey from Norfolk Island and has much written about the constitutional changes that Australia is attempting to introduce to Norfolk Island. For those that don't know, Norfolk Island was colonised by Pitcairn Islanders in 1856 when they ran out of room on Pitcairn. Some Pitcainers later returned back to Pitcairn. Many of the residents of Norfolk are descended from Pitcainers and the crew of The Bounty.

# Bounteous Pleasure . An article from The Sydney Morning Herald about Norfolk Island as a tourist destination and the current situation with Australia asserting control of the island.

"I'm off to Pitcairn Island," a cranky Kik Kik Quintal declared to the grey-haired passengers of his Norfolk Island tourist bus. "I won't be able to afford to live here after Mr Howard has finished with us." These were the first of many angry mutterings I was to hear during a week on an island that prides itself on being a peaceful Pacific paradise but has an excellent pedigree in mutiny.